Re: An incongruent orthography: Maggel

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> >  One of my favourite sounds
> > this side of /F/ labiodental nasal "dark 'm'" (as in "murky," "museum" &
> > "murder" vs. that of the purely bilabial 'm' /m/ in "mommy","mother",
> > "enemy mine", etc.)
>
> You pronounce the first ones with /F/?!!!
No, I think he said that this sound was one of his favorites, as was /F/.

I take this to be the sound of "n" in Italian "inferno".  All Italian
nasals adopt the place of articulation of a following consonant
(and thus any m/n distinction is neutralized) and that even across
word boundaries:  "con Paulo e con Carlo" is /com'pauloecoN'karlo/.
So "nf" is pronounced with a labiodental nasal.

--
John Cowan <jcowan@...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_